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"There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. "

Hoffer, Eric on uncategorised   

"In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support [salary] is a power over his will. "

Hamilton, Alexander on uncategorised   

"It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent. But if you want them to believe youtry to share some of their poverty and see if you can accept it as Gods will yourself!"

Merton, Thomas on uncategorised   

"This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America. I urge this Congress and all Americans to join with me in that effort. "

Johnson, Lyndon B. on uncategorised   

"Look up and not down;Look forward and not back;Look out and not in;Lend a Hand. "

Hale, Edward Everett on uncategorised   

"It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed. "

Herodotus on uncategorised   

"Politics makes strange bed-fellows. "

Warner, Charles Dudley on uncategorised   

"For myself I am an optimistit does not seem to be much use being anything else. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised   

"Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government. "

Truman, Harry S on uncategorised   

"Who put up that cage?Who hung it up with bars, doors?Why do those on the inside want to get out?Why do those outside want to get in?What is this crying inside and out all the time?What is this endless, useless beating of baffled wings at these bars, doors, this cage?"

Sandburg, Carl on uncategorised   

"So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not. "

Friedman, Milton on uncategorised   

"Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as Lincoln was. "

Root, Elihu on uncategorised   

"The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised
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"The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. "

Niebuhr, Reinhold on uncategorised   

"They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in view, something which leaves off as soon as that end is reached. It is not a public chore, to be got over with. It is a way of life. It is the life of a domesticated political and social creature who is born with a love for public life, with a desire for honor, with a feeling for his fellows; and it lasts as long as need be. "

Plutarch on uncategorised   

"Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised   

"Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume. "

Burke, Edmund on uncategorised   

"A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature. "

Bryce, James on uncategorised   

"All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth. "

Breslin, Jimmy on uncategorised   

"The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and thats what it would take. "

Anderson, John B. on uncategorised   

"One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees. The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands. "

Douglas, William O. on uncategorised   

"Im proud that Im a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician whos been dead 10 or 15 years. "

Truman, Harry S on uncategorised   

"Im not a politician and my other habits are good. Ive no enemys to reward, nor friends to sponge. But Im a Union man. "

Ward, Artemus on uncategorised   

"There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician. "

Nixon, Richard M. on uncategorised   

"He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised   

"Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a substitute for debate, and the most illogical and unfitting extensions of the Bill of Rights as protections for psychotic and criminal elements in our society. We have seen all too clearly that there are mennow in power in this countrywho do not represent authority, who cannot cope with tradition, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support revolution as long as it is done with a cultured voice and a handsome profile. "

Agnew, Spiro T. on uncategorised   

"The trusts and combinationsthe communism of pelfwhose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven. "

Cleveland, Grover on uncategorised   

"A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden. "

Hamilton, Alexander on uncategorised   

"I dont believe in labels. I want to do the best I can, all the time. I want to be progressive without getting both feet off the ground at the same time. I want to be prudent without having my mind closed to anything that is new or different. I have often said that I was proud that I was a free man first and an American second, and a public servant third and a Democrat fourth, in that order, and I guess as a Democrat, if I had to takeplace a label on myself, I would want to be a progressive who is prudent. "

Johnson, Lyndon B. on uncategorised   

"Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going to stand for Parliament. Well, perhaps she was rightbut if more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place to live on this Commencement Day of 1956. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised   

"I once said cynically of a politician, Hell double-cross that bridge when he comes to it. "

Levant, Oscar on uncategorised   

"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. "

Coolidge, Calvin on uncategorised   

"In my youth, I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them. The great orators who rule the assemblies by the brilliancy of their eloquence are in general men of the most mediocre political talents: they should not be opposed in their own way; for they have always more noisy words at command than you. Their eloquence should be opposed by a serious and logical argument; their strength lies in vagueness; they should be brought back to the reality of facts; practical arguments destroy them. In the council, there were men possessed of much more eloquence than I was: I always defeated them by this simple argumenttwo and two make four. "

Napoleon III on uncategorised   

"I have no Politics. I am for the Party that is out of Power, no matter which one it is. But I will give you my word that, in case of my appointment, I will not be a Republican; I will do my best to pull with you, and not embarrass you. In fact, my views on European affairs are so in accord with You, Mr. President, that I might almost be suspected of being a Democrat. "

Rogers, Will on uncategorised   

"Sometimes party loyalty asks too much. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised   

"The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemans speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised   

"Of course, both major parties today seek to serve the national interest. They would do so in order to obtain the broadest base of support, if for no nobler reason. But when party and officeholder differ as to how the national interest is to be served, we must place first the responsibility we owe not to our party or even to our constituents but to our individual consciences. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised   

"You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and therefore when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which, I hope, will keep it great. "

Disraeli, Benjamin on uncategorised   

"The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made. "

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on uncategorised   

"The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view. "

Coolidge, Calvin on uncategorised